Speaker(s)
Michèle Allman-Ward
Managing Partner
Allman-Ward Associates, Inc.

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February 21, 28 and March 6, 2012
1:00 - 4:00 PM ET each day (total of 9 hours)

Never has it been more important for companies to manage their working capital and overcome the challenges of managing global liquidity. This series of three highly interactive sessions is designed to introduce participants to the more advanced topics of international cash management, culminating in a case study on which teams will work and present in session 3.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the risks associated with doing business internationally and identify tools available to the treasurer
• Examine the available options in terms of when to open an account and where to domicile it
• Consider the many ways in which treasury can optimize liquidity
• Implement a structure that will manage global cash and liquidity

Speaker(s)
Larry De Palma, CTP
President/CEO
TDG-Phenix, Inc.

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February 22, 29 and March 7, 2012
1:00 - 3:00 PM ET each day (total of 6 hours)

This fast paced, instructor-led course is designed to provide an understanding of ACH, wire, and card payment instruments and the process from origination to settlement. Topics covered will be the most popular domestic and cross-border payments options for business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications from the corporate treasury management perspective. This seminar offers high-level value for all attendees who would like to learn more about the current payments environment.

Learning Objectives:

• Use basic concepts and terminology related to electronic payment collections and disbursements
• Recognize the most popular types of non-paper-based payment instruments, their formats and mechanisms
• Identify how each payment type is originated and settled and examine the parties involved
• Consider speed, finality, remittance data, transaction costs, limitations and risk when selecting payment mechanisms

Speaker(s)
Michael Denton
Partner, Global Risk & Trading Practice
Oliver Wyman

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Historically, most businesses could simply withstand changes in commodity prices, given that the swings were usually temporary, cyclical-and manageable. However, structural changes in the global economy are creating wilder swings in commodity prices that are not only affecting short term profits, but also long term planning and investment. G iven the current and future trends in commodity volatility, all companies must adopt a more rigorous framework and approach to commodity risk management based on a comprehensive understanding of their true net exposure.  

This webinar will provide an overview of the 6 key steps to developing a holistic commodity exposure and enterprise risk profile. The material will be supported by an accompanying “In Practice Guide” and excel workbook that allows participants to apply their own data. Based on the materials, webinar participants will be better equipped to help their organization optimize risk-return positioning.  

Speakers:
Helen Kane
President
Hedge Trackers, LLC
 
Catherine Portman
Global Head of Treasury
Juniper Networks
 

With the threat of a Greek defection from the Euro, treasury departments are taking the lead in their organizations to define and create the strategic response. Catherine Portman, Global Head of Treasury at Juniper Networks and Helen Kane, President of Hedge Trackers will share insights from a recent Silicon Valley roundtable focused on the risk the Euro breakup poses to treasury organizations.  In addition to sharing operational cash, hedge and derivative  accounting concerns, they will discuss efforts to raise awareness with peer organizations, senior management and the board.

Speaker(s)
Larry De Palma, CTP
President/CEO
TDG-Phenix, Inc.

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March 1 and 8, 2012
1:00 - 3:00 PM each day (total of 4 hours)

Purchasing cards are a lesser-known card product that has established a stronghold in the procure-to-pay process, and, when implemented correctly, results in significant cost savings to the enterprise. This virtual seminar provides a foundational knowledge of several key purchasing card topics including, commercial card options (T & E, P-Card or Single Use Accounts), procure-to-pay metrics, effects of P-Card on P-to-P metrics, and trends in spend and payment terms with a P-Card in place. The seminar will cover the stages of implementing and maintaining a P-Card program, including provider selection, services and tools, financial system integration, and vendor management. Additionally, evaluate the effects of a P-Card program on working capital and cash flows.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the procure-to-pay process, before and after P-card implementation to enterprise finance, including working capital and DPO (Days Payable Outstanding)
• Gain knowledge of other commercial card offerings, including ghost cards, travel, single-use accounts and declining balance cards
• Understand the process of determining necessary program features, administration and management
• Learn to work with suppliers to ensure a high-rate of P-card acceptance

March 6, 13 and 20, 2012
12:00 - 3:00 PM ET each day (total of 9 hours)

This seminar will guide the treasury and finance practitioner through a technology implementation project from the RFP through the final evaluation and assessment.  Examine the requirements of a technology solution and learn to define and understand criteria. Next, learn techniques for assessing the requirements and determining which solution which best fits the department, regardless of any resource constraints the treasury may have. Finally, gain a greater understanding of the implementation process.  Learn strategies for implementing the solution efficiently while avoiding any common missteps.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how to identify and define the technology solution requirements of a treasury department
• Develop the initial requirements definition exercise into a technology selection project embracing the specific nature of different treasury environments
• Acquire the fundamentals of project management to deliver a successful implementation of the selected system

Speaker(s)
Helen Kane
President
Hedge Trackers

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March 14 and 21, 2012
1:00 - 4:00 PM ET each day (total of 6 hours)

This course is designed for individuals who have added foreign exchange exposure management to their responsibilities over the past couple of years, individuals cross training for these responsibilities, and those whose company may be contemplating implementation of a currency hedging program. This course will focus on a best-in-class FX hedge program: review accounting and economic currency exposure sources, valuation basics and application of forwards and options, implications and requirements of derivative accounting (GAAP) and reporting on program performance to management.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the interaction of currency exposure and accounting
• Review fundamentals of derivative valuations from both market and reporting perspectives
• Identify efficient techniques for dissecting currency gains & losses
• Learn how to tie hedge objectives to performance reporting

Speaker(s)
George A. Schilling, CTP
Principal
Schilling & Associates

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March 15, 22 and 29, 2012
1:00 - 3:00 PM ET each day (total of 8 hours)

A famous scientist once said "the only problem with prediction is that it is about the future". No one understands this better than the treasury professional charged with the critical responsibility of predicting their company's future cash positions, which drive corporate liquidity levels, fund the operating cycle and support capital investment decisions. Performing these forecasts and interpreting variances with any degree of confidence demands solid, competency-based skills, which is the focus of this in-depth, facilitator-led course. The format includes a combination of lecture and practical "hands-on" applications of a number of cash flow forecasting techniques practiced by treasury professionals in this mission-critical role.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply "how to" techniques for forecasting individual cash flow line items
• Learn statistical techniques for dealing with cash flow uncertainties; both on-going and one-time events
• Investigate techniques for both predicting the year-end cash balance and reconciling it to the short-term cash forecast
• Explore how to perform and interpret cash forecast variance analyses

Speaker(s)
Dean Sorensen
Director
Archetype Consulting

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 April 10, and April 17, 2012 

1:00 - 3:00 PM ET(each day)

Rolling forecasts have the potential to provide one of the most significant sources of value for global organizations. Why? Because the capabilities supporting fully integrated forecasting processes are the same ones enabling organizations to achieve aspirations of being more flexible, responsive, innovative, cost effective and customer-focused. Rolling forecasts can take many forms. Some believe it to be a replacement for annual budgeting processes, but collapsing budgeting into a meaningful monthly forecasting process is proving easier said than done, especially in global organizations. What’s being discovered is that they can’t achieve sufficient strategic, financial and operational integration to make such a process effective. This seminar provides a blueprint for establishing such a process.

Learning Objectives:

This seminar will provide participants with the following insights:

• Examine an integrated rolling forecast and understand the incremental capabilities it has that organizations typically lack
• Learn how the process supports scenario planning and enables organizations to simultaneously evaluate the impact of decisions on segment profitability, cash flow, income / value added tax, foreign currency, working capital, inventory and project ROI
• Understand how the process exposes risks in supply chains, product, customer and project investment portfolios
• Learn how these incremental capabilities address issues that undermine the effectiveness of, and value realized from, investments in ERP, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Performance Management and Sales & Operations Planning
• Explore new technologies that enable this process and how they can be used with the above applications to operationalize it 
• Determine how these breakthrough improvements provide the means to create significant and specific sources of value
• Learn to implement these processes

Speaker(s)
Michael C. Mason
Sr. Management Consultant
Accretive Solutions

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 April24 and 25, 2012  1:00-3:00 PM ET each day (total of 4 hours)

Financial Planning and Analysis is composed of three fundamental planning processes—strategic, operating/financial, and forecasting—and the analysis of actual performance relative to those plans.

Corporations have long had a tendency to produce these three sets of plans in isolation, which ultimately results in a breakdown—a de-linking of corporate plans from core business processes and activities. Learn best practices to integrate the base planning processes and ensure that each is action-oriented and performance-based.
 

Speaker(s)
Jim Washam, PhD, CTP
Associate Dean and Director of Undergraduate Programs
College of Business, Arkansas State University

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Day 1 will review chapters 4-7 in the Essentials of Treasury Management. Topics include Financial Accounting, Financial Planning and Analysis, Working Capital Management, and Working Capital Tools. Attendees will have access to a CTP Prep discussion board, practice tests, and useful handouts to prepare for the exam.

Individual Course:Member: $300 Non-member: $375 

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Speaker(s)
Jim Washam, PhD, CTP
Associate Dean and Director of Undergraduate Programs
College of Business, Arkansas State University

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This online Calculations course will review 22 of the most commonly used formulas in the Essentials of Treasury Management. An expert AFP instructor will discuss these calculations, alternative solutions for solving a number of calculations, and isolating variables to reduce the number of equations which otherwise must be memorized. Attendees will leave the course with an understanding how the calculations support day-to-day decision making to apply when taking the CTP exam.

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Speaker(s)
Jim Washam, PhD, CTP
Associate Dean and Director of Undergraduate Programs
College of Business, Arkansas State University

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Day 3 will review chapters 8, 10, and 11 in the Essentials of Treasury Management. Topics include Cash Management and Forecasting, Payment Systems, Collections & Disbursements, and Money Markets, Short-Term Investing & Borrowing. Attendees will have access to a CTP Prep discussion board, practice tests, and useful handouts to prepare for the exam.

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 Individual Course: Member: $300 Non-member: $375
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Speaker(s)
Jim Washam, PhD, CTP
Associate Dean and Director of Undergraduate Programs
College of Business, Arkansas State University

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Day 4 will review chapters 9 and 12-14 in the Essentials of Treasury Management. Topics include Financial Risk Management, Capital Markets, Financial Decisions and Management, and Capital Structure & Dividend Policy. Attendees will have access to a CTP Prep discussion board, practice tests, and useful handouts to prepare for the exam.

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Individual Course:Member: $300 Non-member: $375
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